Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
"Alice Malsenior Walker" is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Alice Walker on Wikipedia.I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as the handing down of answers. So much of what passes for teaching is merely a pointing out of what items to want.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
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